Know It All with Peggy Bunker

How's this for shopping advice? "If it's an American staple product.....don't eat it." That's what our guest Jen Smiley wants you to know....our American food system has allowed toxic products to become mainstream, despite endless data proving it's terrible for us. Before you get overwhelmed, there's a solution: Jen has created a fast, current, lightning-speed app that helps you avoid toxic foods...

Welcome back to your favorite ethical lifestyle podcast, Know it All with Peggy Bunker. It’s time for a little Consumer Awareness Hot Take! In this short episode of the Know it all podcast, Peggy Bunker and producer Courtney discuss the empowered shopping and ethical consumerism needed to promote safe, sustainable living at home. Peggy lists four everyday home products that she has eliminated enti...

Would you buy a hair spray if you knew it had been repeatedly sprayed directly into a dog's face in order to avoid lawsuits? Would you buy makeup that was forcefully pushed into dogs' eyes to gauge toxicity? How about a simple kitchen cleaner, hosed up to a dog's snout and force-sprayed into its face, with no relief, all to protect a company's antiquated, outdated, and ineffective attempts at side...

Welcome back to your favorite ethical lifestyle podcast, Know it All with Peggy Bunker.  "Are you a vegan?" Wow, what a loaded question.  It’s similar to "do you smoke?" or "do you drink?"  or even "do you NOT drink?!"  In fact to many people, “vegan” is practically a dirty word.  These days there’s plenty of social judgement around people’s personal choices, and for whatever reason NOT eating mea...

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." This quote by famed psychologist Wayne Dyer is at the heart of the animal rights movement....how can we stop viewing animals - thinking, feeling animals that are similar to ourselves - as products for our use? In a society that actively inflicts torturous pain and suffering on billions of animals per year so that we can e...

Is it actually possible to eat meat in an ethical way? According to Nicolette Hahn Niman, it most definitely is. After living as a vegetarian for 33 years, Nicolette fell in love with a rancher by the name of Bill Niman and discovered a way to raise animals responsibly and ethically. She is a wealth of information about the history of factory farming and how we got here, and her perspective is vit...

It's easy to point the blame at factory "farmers" for the way the animals are treated.....but once we learn their backstory, you realize the farmers are victims, too. Indebted to large meat producers who create cycles of debt with madatory farm upgrades, former family farmers can find themselves literally trapped like the animals in their sheds. There is a way out. Meet former hog-now-mushroom far...

Zach Skow knows what it's like to be at rock bottom. Diagnosed in his twenties with end-stage liver disease and turning yellow due to liver failure, Zach was given less than 90 days to live. Surrounding him was his support system, his beloved dogs, particularly his dog Marley. Seeing the love in their eyes, Zach decided to pull himself out of addiciton, and was able to turn around his liver diseas...

If you had to name the number one place you'd never expect to find an animal-activist vegan, it would probably be a Texas cattle ranch. But that's exactly where we found our first guest, Renee King-Sonnen, surrounded by the cows her and her legacy cattle-rancher husband used to sell AND eat. But an awakening to the reality of the animals' lives, and hers, changed all that. Threatening divorce if h...

There’s a reason why Big Ag doesn’t want you to see behind the scenes….the horrors of how beef, pork, dairy, and poultry are sourced has most consumers saying, “I don’t want to know.” Gene Baur, president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary, thinks it’s our responsibility to know, but without shame or judgement. In this episode of Know it all, Peggy Bunker interviews Gene about being one of the first...

Peggy Bunker is no stranger to discovering the truth. For many years, she was an award winning news anchor who reported all kinds of stories and some of those stories have still left her with questions. Those stories involve the mind-boggling state of our food industry and the lack of knowledge about what we’re feeding our children and using in our homes. As a mom herself, Peggy wants to dig into...

Kim Sturla is the former Executive Director, current Board Member, of Animal Place. Sturla co-founded the sanctuary in 1989, and has been a central figure in the animal rights movement for 30 plus years. Sturla wrote the first law in the country that protects pre-university students unwilling to participate in animal dissections, and served as director of the Peninsula Humane Society for over a de...